I'm sorry to say that real life is going to limit my free time for quite a while, so I'm not going to be able to give much to this project for the time being.I've rather belatedly submitted kino-1.1.1 for testing today.

That's alright, I understand. I've been only testing all of our packages lately anyway to make sure that all the functions are working properly.

Okay, so now that I just found out that the VL 5.8.6 release has been canceled, I'm wondering what to do. I had originally planned to try to get the Bonus Disc done about the same time that 5.8.6 was released or a little bit after. Also, I was hoping to make sure that it was compatible with it. However, since that release has been canceled and work has started on the 6.0 development line, I'm wondering if we should try to make this Bonus Disc compatible with the 6.0 release or just keep working on 5.8. I think we should try to look at our packages and asses what it would take to make this work with 6.0 also we need to talk to the devs to see what their projected release date for 6.0 might be. That way we can get an idea as to how much time we have, also what changes might happen to 6.0 during the development process that might break packages that we made at the beginning. Any suggestions? It would be nice to have some input from the devs on this since they are more experienced at this kind of thing than I am.

Since we have only just started on the Bonus Disc, it really wouldn't be too hard to repackage some of the programs on 5.9.x and just make sure that everything from this point forward is 6.0 compatible.

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Right now I'm working on redoing all the packages that we've done so far and getting them to work on VL 5.9. However, I'm having trouble compiling a lot of things with the Pseudo (not the packager version) and I can't download the packager version because I'm actually away from home right now, (with slow Internet). I'll be back home in the next couple of days and then I can try to get back to the point that we were with the 5.8 packages.

Okay, so now that I just found out that the VL 5.8.6 release has been canceled, I'm wondering what to do. I had originally planned to try to get the Bonus Disc done about the same time that 5.8.6 was released or a little bit after. Also, I was hoping to make sure that it was compatible with it. However, since that release has been canceled and work has started on the 6.0 development line, I'm wondering if we should try to make this Bonus Disc compatible with the 6.0 release or just keep working on 5.8. I think we should try to look at our packages and asses what it would take to make this work with 6.0 also we need to talk to the devs to see what their projected release date for 6.0 might be. That way we can get an idea as to how much time we have, also what changes might happen to 6.0 during the development process that might break packages that we made at the beginning. Any suggestions? It would be nice to have some input from the devs on this since they are more experienced at this kind of thing than I am.

Since we have only just started on the Bonus Disc, it really wouldn't be too hard to repackage some of the programs on 5.9.x and just make sure that everything from this point forward is 6.0 compatible.

I vote for 5.9/6.0. A lot is already in the VL 5.8 repositories and it is now clear that 5.8 isn't much longer for this world, at least as the current release. I know that all the packaging I'm now doing, as well as my Vector Mini project, are based on 5.9

I vote for 5.9/6.0. A lot is already in the VL 5.8 repositories and it is now clear that 5.8 isn't much longer for this world, at least as the current release. I know that all the packaging I'm now doing, as well as my Vector Mini project, are based on 5.9

Yep, I've already started working on making this for 5.9. But...the libiconv thing kind of messed things up for me.

Whohooo! I just submitted Part one of the Multimedia Bonus Disc. As you can see above, I've packaged quite a few things but still have a ways to go. I'm hoping to have an alpha or beta ready by Monday or Tuesday. Here's a list of the packages that I've done:

I'll post some cool screen shots sometime here but when I actually release the first beta I'll need some help taking screen shots. I can't take them all myself. Keep a look out sometime this next week!

Actually it was built on 5.9. And I have my build environment set up to make it extremely easy to rebuild everything on future releases.

EDIT: I need some suggestions on video programs. I was amazed as I started packaging how many cool audio programs/plugins/stuff was out there for Linux. However, I couldn't find nearly as many video/dvd programs. I need people to give me the names to some video programs that aren't already on the list. Thanks!

Okay, for those of you who don't know what this Multimedia Bonus Disc is, here's a description along with some screenshots.

Prior to this bonus disc, it was very frustrating and difficult to find and install the programs needed to edit video and audio and create DVDs. Built upon the sleek and stable Vector Linux 5.9, the Multimedia Bonus Disc solves all your multimedia problems and provides the perfect platform for video and audio production. Gone are the days of searching through forums trying to find a program to just create a DVD. Now all the programs you need are installed at once and are available at a click.

This is what the Multimedia menu looks like after installing what I've done so far :